Obama’s involvement in Chicago Climate Exchange–the rest of the story (Mar 09)

cfp ^ | March 25, 2009 | Judi McLeod

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“Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Program He Is Now Pushing Through Congress” is a FOXNews story by Ed Barnes. In short, “While on the board of a Chicago-based charity, Barack Obama helped fund a carbon trading exchange that will likely play a critical role in the cap-and-trade carbon reduction program he is now trying to push through Congress as president.”

The charity was the Joyce Foundation on whose board of directors Obama served and which gave nearly $1.1 million in two separate grants that were “instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange, which now calls itself “North America’s only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.”

And that’s only the beginning of this tawdry tale, Mr. Barnes.

The “privately-owned” Chicago Climate Exchange is heavily influenced by Obama cohorts Al Gore and Maurice Strong.

For years now Strong and Gore have been cashing in on that lucrative cottage industry known as man-made global warming.

Strong is on the board of directors of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Wikipedia-described as “the world’s first and North America’s only legally binding greenhouse gas emission registry reduction system for emission sources and offset projects in North America and Brazil.”

Gore, self-proclaimed Patron Saint of the Environment, buys his carbon off-sets from himself—the Generation Investment Management LLP, “an independent, private, owner-managed partnership established in 2004 with offices in London and Washington, D.C., of which he is both chairman and founding partner. The Generation Investment Management business has considerable influence over the major carbon credit trading firms that currently exist, including the Chicago Climate Exchange.

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From article:

Strong, the silent partner, is a man whose name often draws a blank on the Washington cocktail circuit. Even though a former Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the much hyped Rio Earth Summit) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations in the days of an Oil-for-Food beleaguered Kofi Annan, the Canadian born Strong is little known in the United States.

That’s because he spends most of his time in China where he he has been working to make the communist country the world’s next superpower. The nondescript Strong, nonetheless is the big cheese in the underworld of climate change and is one of the main architects of the failing Kyoto Protocol.

[BenLurkin]

Crooked is as crooked does.

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Rats nest of cronyism, from article:

It may be interesting to note that the Chicago Climate Exchange in spite of its hype, is a veritable rat’s nest of cronyism.

The largest shareholder in the Exchange is Goldman Sachs.
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is its honorary chairman,
The Joyce Foundation, which funded the Exchange also funded money for John Ayers’ Chicago School Initiatives. John is the brother of William Ayers.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[MurrietaMadman]

Sounds like our arch-villains think they have found a fool proof method of scamming. Anybody else see a similar pattern e.g. leftists, time frame, chicago and democrats emerging that is consistent with the bird/swine flu scam?

http://islamic-intelligence.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-are-obamas-investments-in-biotech.html

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Agenda 21 was the main outcome of the United Nation’s Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Maurice Stong was a big pusher of Agenda 21:

Agenda 21 outlines, in detail, the UN’s vision for a centrally managed global society. This contract binds governments around the world to the United Nation’s plan for controlling the way we live, eat, learn, move and communicate - all under the noble banner of saving the earth. If fully implemented, Agenda 21 would have the government involved in every aspect of life of every human on earth.

[WellyP]

Strong, Gore, Daly, Annan, one and all, they are human SCUM! Zero really scrapes the barrel or does he just enjoy being with low-lives?

“Know me by the friends I keep” Zero, were learning!